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"When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it's up to a fastidious maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty"--

From Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author behind HBO's hit series True Blood and NBC's Midnight, Texas, the first in a series of mysteries that hits as hard as its heroine...
Lily Bard has no illusions about her little town being safe, or peaceful, or full of goodness. Shakespeare, Arkansas, was nothing but a name on a map when she moved here. But Lily has kept her head down...

"Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his living room. A...

Callahan Garrity has her hands full trying to expand her cleaning business. So she's reluctant to take on a client in need of detective services, especially when that client is the most notorious woman in Atlanta. Whitney Albright Dobbs is a wealthy socialite who, while under the influence, killed a young black girl in a hit and run. Callahan is not keen on tracking down Whitney's soon-to-be ex-husband's assets. But it only takes a glance to see that...

In a weekly group therapy session, Lily Bard and the group members find "a woman dead, killed in bone-chilling fashion and deliberately left on display to send a twisted message. Who would commit such a horrendous crime, and who is the intended recipient of the message?"--Jacket.

Dr. David Lawrence has spent the last two years atoning for his sins and recovering from the devastating breakup with Gansett Island golden girl Janey. As the island's only doctor, David has had ample opportunity to show his neighbors that there is more to him than the guy who broke Janey's heart. Now if he could only find a way to forgive himself. Daisy Babson is in bad need of a fresh start after her latest relationship took a violent turn leaving...

In New Orleans' historic Garden District, life is all about attending the right parties, impressing the right people, and making the right amount of money (a lot!) It's an attitude fifty-nine-year-old Charlotte La Rue has never really understood. She leads a quiet, simple, practical life—and it suits her just fine. Business is booming at her housecleaning service, Maid-for-a-Day—and in her down time, she loves reading mystery novels...

"OLD RIVALRIES NEVER DIE. BUT SOME RIVALS DO. Juliet Townsend is used to losing. Back in high school, she lost every track team race to her best friend, Madeleine Bell. Ten years later, she's still running behind, stuck in a dead-end job cleaning rooms at the Mid-Night Inn, a one-star motel that attracts only the cheap or the desperate. But what life won't provide, Juliet takes. Then one night, Maddy checks in. Well-dressed, flashing a huge diamond...

"Entertaining. . . . If you are up for a big helping of humor and heartbreak, insanity and intrigue, read Irish Eyes." — Orange Country Register

Callahan Garrity is the owner of House Mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She's also a former cop and a part-time sleuth. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set.

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Part-time sleuth and professional house cleaner Callahan Garrity is just congratulating herself on having everything under control for the holidays when her brother Brian, who she has not seen in over ten years, walks in and out of her life, leaving his two-year-old daughter and a murder charge in his wake.